AMD’s next-generation graphics cards could go a long way in terms of efficiency for Nvidia, and may even be up there in terms of performance, according to recent speculation by a well-known hardware leaker on YouTube – but Team Green could beat Team Red on the punch and point of release date.
The latest video from Moore’s Law is Dead (MLID) covers the future battle of these next generation GPUs, highlighting the alleged intelligent design of AMD’s RDNA 3 products, and how they can run rings around Nvidia in terms of power efficiency.
What presumably AMD’s RX 7000 series will be, is predicted to be very economical and can “blow Lovelace out of the water” when it comes to efficiency, and could fit in with Nvidia – or perhaps even marginally surpass – even for performance, mengt MLID.
That said, the claims on the performance front certainly sound a lot more in the realm of speculation, and as always with these kinds of early rumors, we have to be pretty careful about everything that is talked about here.
Where Nvidia has a clear advantage, MLID believes, is in start-up timing, as the currently-formed guesswork from sources indicates that Lovelace (presumably RTX 4000) graphics cards will be released in Q3 2022. That should be a distance ahead of RDNA 3 products, which will likely emerge in Q4 (although the leaker estimates that there is a possibility that Mid-Range RX 7000 models, namely Navi 33 GPUs, might be released before the fourth quarter).
Broadly, however, watching MLID on Nvidia beat AMD on the punch for the launch timeframe.
Analysis: Is this AMD’s big move to grab some serious desktop GPU turf?
Running RDNA 3 graphics cards at higher efficiency levels is hardly a surprise, but the theory that they’re completely dropping Nvidia Lovelace GPUs is not something we’ve heard before. That would be quite a win for Team Red, and admittedly we have a string of disturbing rumors witnessing exactly how power-hungry Nvidia’s next-gen graphics products could be.
This is important especially on the higher end, as if Nvidia cards are really making some punishing demands on the power front, it could mean that gamers are looking for a PSU upgrade – and instead go that route, if RX 7000 GPUs are really way more power-efficient, potential buyers can change their minds and go Team Red.
It’s also interesting to hear MLID express some cynicism around some of the rumors previously circulating about Nvidia Lovelace GPUs that promise more than double the performance of current Ampere cards – such as the claim that the RTX 4090 the performance of the Trinity of the existing Nvidia flagship.
The leaker suggests that these kinds of estimates are overblown, and that while other predictions of doubling performance are possible, they require Nvidia to push down power consumption massively (as it is rumored to be fair). , as we have already said). MLID certainly believes that Lovelace will represent a larger generational performance increase than Ampere was over Turing, and that it will be impressive, but it could be more of a 60% to 80% gain rather than a direct doubling.
This theory that some rumors have exaggerated Lovelace’s performance increase is partly the reason for MLID’s thinking that AMD’s RDNA 3 cards are competitive in terms of raw frame rates (as well as offering much better efficiency).
So, there seems to be reason to ask Nvidia about how the next-generation GPU battle is shaping up, and it’s also worth mentioning that RX 7000 graphics cards coming later are partly wrapped up in AMD to ensure that the Supply stronger is this time around. The argument is that this would be Team Red’s chance to really get back into the game, increasing its desktop GPU market share by about 20% to something more substantial.
Nvidia is out early though, and in theory – and with Team Green also increasing availability, as a general rule, any GPU stock level is expected to get much better as 2022 continues to roll – will still be a big advantage, and we should not be carried off go away with speculation about how good things can go for AMD.
This is just speculation, after all, and the equation of how the GPU war came out also has another element to consider – namely Intel’s entry into the market with Arc Alchemist cards and how that affects the balance of power. In short, there are still plenty of roads to travel for 2022, but surely these latest whispers from Grapevine will not be comforting for Nvidia’s dominant desktop powerhouse.
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